The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 30

‘Very well, cinders be it,’ the old woman called after him, but he pretended not to hear her.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, call, pretend, not hear · To what, where: basket, old woman, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 cinders	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 cinders	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 it	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cinders	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cinders	appos
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 woman	acl
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pretended	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 pretended	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pretended	nsubj
19	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cinders	conj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hear	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pretended	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cinders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		basket		tree rules
2	call	participle		the old woman not said here	after king	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	past	king			tree rules
4	not hear	to-infinitive	king not said here	woman		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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